Senior FP&A Analyst

🚀 Join the Future of Commerce with Whatnot!

Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in North America and Europe to buy, sell, and discover the things you love. Whether it's trading cards, fashion, electronics, or live plants, our sellers are building real businesses across hundreds of categories. We're building live commerce at a scale that's never been done in the West, and there's no playbook to copy. The people here are shaping how an entirely new industry develops.

As a remote co-located team, we're inspired by our values and anchored in hubs across the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, Germany, and Australia. We move fast, stay close to our users, and focus on the work that drives the most impact.

We're one of the fastest growing marketplaces and were recently named the #1 Best Startup Employer in America by Forbes. Check out the latest Whatnot updates on our news and engineering blogs and join us as we enable anyone to turn their passion into a business and bring people together through commerce.

💻  Role

The FP&A team at Whatnot is responsible for financial reporting, financial transformation, budgeting, headcount planning, and financial analyses. As a Sr. FP&A Analyst, you’ll own end-to-end forecasting for core parts of our business, driving forecasting accuracy and empowering our business leaders to make financially informed decisions.

• Own all facets of OPEX spend and headcount planning for Organizations across the business (with an emphasis on EPD), with growth opportunities to be a FP&A vertical owner

• Continue to develop internal FP&A tool Pigment, building out enhanced modeling and reporting for business partners within the system

• Partner with Org leads, People Business Partners, and talent to understand end-to-end organizational needs (headcount & non-headcount spend), acting as a business partner to manage and recalibrate spend on a monthly basis

• Participate in the annual planning process, owning your areas for a 12 to 18 month forward-looking projection

• Support the month-end close process by completing budget vs. actual analysis against prior periods, budgets, and forecasts.

• Familiarize with business operating metrics and the utilization of said metric to drive business insight and operational improvements

• Create vendor-level forecasts for spend, including but not limited to software and legal

• Assist in the creation of internal and external monthly reporting packages, in partnership with various Finance & Accounting teams and Data

• Assist in forward-looking modeling efforts to better understand impact of spend on revenue

• Partner with cross-functional teams for the preparation of key quarterly reporting deliverables, including Board Meeting presentations and investor reporting

• Partner with Accounting on policies that impact corporate spend

We offer flexibility to work from home or from one of our global office hubs, and we value in-person time for planning, problem-solving, and connection. Team members in this role must live within commuting distance of our San Francisco, New York, or Los Angeles hubs.

👋  You

People who do well at Whatnot tend to be comfortable figuring things out as they go, biased toward action, and genuinely curious about what they're building. They care more about outcomes than credit and stay close to the product and the people using it.

As our next Senior FP&A Analyst, you should have 3+ years of experience in FP&A, Finance, or Accounting at a fast-paced company, plus:

• Expert knowledge of financial statement analysis and corporate finance concepts

• Experience with FP&A tools (Pigment, Anaplan, Adaptive Planning)

• Experience with OPEX and headcount planning

• Strong familiarity with Accounting principles (Accounting background a plus)

• Familiarity with ERP Systems (GL + Planning)

• Are a self-starter, high attention to detail, and very organized

• Have the ability to partner cross-functionally, influence, and connect with all business partners

• Proven history of diving into numbers and extract insight to improve process or business decision making

🎁 Benefits

• Flexible Time off Policy and Company-wide Holidays (including a spring and winter break)

• Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision

• Work From Home Support

  • Home office setup allowance

  • Monthly allowance for cell phone and internet

• Care benefits

  • Monthly allowance for wellness

  • Annual allowance towards Childcare

  • Lifetime benefit for family planning, such as adoption or fertility expenses

• Retirement; 401k offering for Traditional and Roth accounts in the US (employer match up to 4% of base salary) and Pension plans internationally

• Monthly allowance to dogfood the app

  • All Whatnauts are expected to develop a deep understanding of our product. We're passionate about building the best user experience, and all employees are expected to use Whatnot as both a buyer and a seller as part of their job (our dogfooding budget makes this fun and easy!).

• Parental Leave

  • 16 weeks of paid parental leave + one month gradual return to work *company leave allowances run concurrently with country leave requirements which take precedence.

💛 EOE

Whatnot is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, parental status, disability status, or any other status protected by local law. We believe that our work is better and our company culture is improved when we encourage, support, and respect the different skills and experiences represented within our workforce.